CSE Undergrad News

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:03 AM
Subject: Fwd: Decoding the Value of Computer Science – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, CCC Council <councilccc@cra.org>, Jeannette Wing <wing@cs.cmu.edu>

This is a very nice short article.

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From: Chris Johnson <crj@sci.utah.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:48 AM
Subject: Decoding the Value of Computer Science – Commentary – The
Chronicle of Higher Education
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>

http://chronicle.com/article/Decoding-the-Value-of-Computer/125266/

CIE Seattle Tech Startups

Date Thursday, November 11

Time 7:00-9:00 PM

Location: North campus, Bank of America Executive Education Center – Douglas Forum: http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=EXED

Event Details: Meeting between students and entrepreneurs in the Seattle area who give and seek advice on running technology startups.  The topic is four useful technologies you should know. Specifically:

• Solr: a faceted search engine. Great for full text search, but oh so much more. Learn more from Paul Brown whose data processing and visualization consulting firm uses Solr as a key part of their visualization stack.
• Event Machine: an event processing library for Ruby. Learn about how evented servers give you scalable non-blocking i/o (and why you should care), help with lots of concurrent connections and more. The speaker is Jeff Wartes from Whitepages, where he used EventMachine to build a new high-throughput service whose primary requirement was tolerance of outside failures.
• Redis: an in-memory, persistent, key value store with push and pop operators. Ever wanted memcache with persistence? Or an easy-to-use in-memory queue? Learn about the versatility of Redis as a simple to setup and use, but flexible and powerful new tool.
• Node.js: similar to Event Machine, Node.js is Javascript’s answer to evented servers.

No need to sign-up to attend.  You can just show up.

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Sarah Massey, Assistant Director

Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Michael G. Foster School of Business

University of Washington
P:  206.685.9868 | masses@uw.edu

Attention CSE Majors!

The University of Washington Academic Support Program is offering a service-learning seminar titled “EDUC 401: Tutoring and Mentorship in Higher Education” for Winter Quarter 2011. This weekly seminar will introduce junior and senior CSE students to a diverse range of tutoring, mentoring, and teaching methodologies. Students will have an opportunity to apply what they learn in class through tutoring and mentoring new transfer, freshman, and sophomore students who are transitioning socially, culturally, and academically to the University of Washington. This is a great opportunity for seasoned students to give back to the University by sharing their knowledge and experience with new students who are working to become independent learners.

• Seminar begins 2nd week of Winter Quarter,  January 10, 2011 in MGH 288
• Seminar will meet on Mondays from 4-5 PM (section H) or from 5:30-6:30PM (section I)
• Tutoring will take place on campus
• Receive 2 credits for working with one student
• Receive 3 credits for working with two students
• A letter of recommendation will be available upon request after completion of the seminar

For more registration information, please contact Anne Browning at:

anneb7@u.washington.edu

Tutor-Mentor * 2-3 Credits * EDUC 401
Current syllabus available for review at:

http://depts.washington.edu/aspuw/

In my previous post I accidentally put “Xanga” in the title of the post.  The info session is put on by “Zynga”, both having strange combination of letters.

Well here is one last reminder!

Today, Zynga, Atrium, 6-7:30pm, Thai Food and drawing for a netbook.

Chris

We are re-designing our outreach webpage to send out to prospective high school students and we’d like to include a “top ten” list from our students on why they should consider UW CSE.  We’re on a short timeline, so please try to respond by this weekend if at all possible. Thank you!

You don’t need to come up with ten, just give us as many as you can think of and we’ll pick the best ten submitted.

Catalyst Response: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/117000

Engineering Networking Night

November 17, 2010, 6-8pm

Vista Cafe, S Foege – Genome Sciences

Engineering Networking Night is an opportunity for engineering juniors and seniors to interact with engineering alumni working in industry.  The event is an opportunity to interact with industry professionals, build your professional network, and get your questions answered about “life after graduation.” This is not a recruiting event.  Please complete this registration form to attend the event – space is limited.

We would like for students to RSVP here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/krhoward/113071

Here are some further details.

The format of the event is similar to “speed dating.”  Students will rotate to different tables 3 times throughout the evening.

Here’s the timeline for the evening:

6pm – Eve Riskin Welcomes

6:10pm – 7:10pm Discussion – 3 rotations of 15 minutes and 5 minutes to alternate groups

7:10pm – Buffet opens

7:10pm – 8pm – Dinner and conversation

8pm – Departure

Our donors and alumni really enjoy this opportunity to interact with students.

Take care,

Karen

Drop-ins have been very busy this week, so plan accordingly. Mornings are generally less busy. You can also use email or set up individual appointments if you have longer questions.

Please note that although we have been trying to keep drop-in advising consistent to M, T, W, Th from 2-3PM and T, W, F 10-11AM, this week we need to make a change. There will be no Friday morning hours, but we will have 2-3PM hours on Friday instead.

There will only be one advisor available this Tuesday and Friday afternoon  for current students, so line-ups may be a little longer. We appreciate your patience.

Hey CSE Ugrads,

Only 2 events this week, 2 days in a row!

Zynga Info Session: Tuesday November 9th, 6:00-7:00pm, CSE Atrium

AKA the makers of FarmVille and other ridiculously populated online games. There will be Thai Food, giveways, and a drawing for a Free HP Mini Netbook! They are hiring for full time and interns, check it out!

Research Night: Wednesday November 10th, 4:30-6:30pm, EE 125 and Atrium

One more ad for Research night.  A marvellous speaker and panel will start off the night at 4:30pm in EE125 getting us pumped for research.  Then a poster session will ensue at 5:30 in the atrium with ugrads, grads, and profs showing off their awesome research maybe looking to take on some new students!  It will be swell.

Take it easy,

Chris Raastad

Hey undergrads,

There was a mistake in the last post. Research Night starts at 4:30, not 5:30. Sorry! Here’s the rest, for context.

“It’s coming up! This Wednesday is Research Night. Come check out the research our department has been working on, and maybe find a project you’d be interesting in working on. Undergraduate research looks great to grad schools and employers alike, and it’s really never too early to start.

The event kicks off at 4:30 PM with a short talk and a Q&A panel in EE 125. Afterwards, we’ll move to a poster session in the Atrium.

Hope to see you there!”

– ACM

Hey undergrads,

It’s coming up! This Wednesday is Research Night. Come check out the research our department has been working on, and maybe find a project you’d be interesting in working on. Undergraduate research looks great to grad schools and employers alike, and it’s really never too early to start.

The event kicks off at 4:30 PM with a short talk and a Q&A panel in EE 125. Afterwards, we’ll move to a poster session in the Atrium.

Hope to see you there!

– ACM